"Rich man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been greatly liberal for every kind of philanthropic effort. But they have conducted their charity as they have conducted their business, by drawing cheques. The clergy, the secretaries, and the committees have done the active work, administering the funds subscribed by the rich man's cheques. The system of cheque-charity has its merits as well as its defects, because the help given does generally reach the people for whom it was intended. Compared, however, with the real thing, which is ...
— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant
... detail, more thought; Luke is more picturesque, more descriptive. John has more deep feeling; Luke more action, more life. The Annunciation, the Widow of Nain, the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, the Rich Man and Lazarus, and the incident to which we shall presently advert, are found ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... hand into the man's pocket and take out his purse, in which was a $20 gold piece. This glittering coin he put in the gentleman's fingers instead of the penny and then restored the purse to the rich man's pocket. ...
— American Fairy Tales • L. Frank Baum
... assumed a different appearance. Masons, carpenters, and upholsterers had come and so improved the villa, within and without, that it now made a stately and beautiful appearance amid the dense foliage of the trees. It had been expensively and splendidly furnished with every thing desirable for a rich man's dwelling, and the upholsterers had enough to relate to the listening Romans of the elegant magnificence now displayed in this formerly pitiable villa. How gladly would the former promenaders now have returned to this garden; how gladly would they now have revisited this villa, ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach
... to a Radical paper "the poor man's tobacco pays 10-1/2d. in the shilling to taxation, while the rich man's cigar pays only 1/2d. in the shilling to taxation." This may be very true, but is the question worth discussing? It is sure to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 • Various
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